Through days of sorrow and of mirth, Through days of death and days of birth, Through every swift vicissitude Of changeful time, unchanged it has stood, And as if, like God, it all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — "Forever — never... The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 90by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1851 - 786 pages
...along the floor, And seems to say at each chamber door— ' For ever — never ! Never — for ever ! ' In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality...chimney roared, The stranger feasted at his board ; Bnt, like the skeletons at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased — • ' For ever —... | |
| 1850 - 464 pages
...saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, " Forever — never! Never — forever !" In that mausion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality ; His great fires...The stranger feasted at his board : But, like the skeletons at the feast, That warning time-piece never ceased, " Forever — never ! Never — forever... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 558 pages
...each chamber door, "Forever — never ! Never — forever !" In that mansion used to be Free hearted Hospitality, His great fires up the chimney roared,...; But like the skeleton at the feast, That warning time-pece never ceased, — "Forever— never ! Never — forever !" , There groups of merry children... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846 - 178 pages
...as if, like God, it all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " In that mansion used to be Free-hearted...— never ! Never — forever ! " There groups of tnerry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming strayed ; O precious hours ! O golden prime,... | |
| Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pages
...Free-hearted hospitality ; His great tires up ihe chimney roared ; The stranger feasted at his board ; Bui, like the skeleton at the feast, That warning time-piece...groups of merry children played, There youths and maidensdreaming strayed, 0 precious hours! 0 golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 170 pages
...as if, like God, it all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — " Forever — never! Never — forever !" In that mansion used to be Free-hearted...hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece told,— " Forever — never!... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 pages
...things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever !" In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality...at the feast, That warning time-piece never ceased, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever !" There groups of merry children played, There youths... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...as if, like God, it all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " In that mansion used to be Free-hearted...ceased, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever I " There groups of merry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming strayed ; 0 precious hours... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — " For ever — never! Never — for ever!" In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality...at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever!' There groups of merry children played, There youths... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...God, it all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe: . " Forever—never! Never—forever!" In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality;...at the feast, That warning time-piece never ceased: " Forever—never! Never—forever!" There groups of merry children played; There youths and maidens,... | |
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